Happy birthday to my little princess who turned 4 today. It looks like only yesterday I baked the strawberry cake for her 3rd birthday and she is already four. The red velvet cake has been on my list for quite sometime and I was all set to make it for my son’s birthday, but then he decided he wanted a marble cake instead. I finally got around to making this for my daughter and it worked out pretty well because she loved the color and gulped down the frosting. All my friends enjoyed the cake and K said that the cake was very moist and tasty.

I do not have the patience to apply the frosting and K came to the rescue like he did for my other cakes. I just told him that I wanted to sprinkle some crumbs and some edible pearls and left him to play with the frosting. After a couple of attempts, we got a decent decoration and I could not take my eyes off the pretty white cake with red crumbs. I was also happy that I was able to take some good pictures given that I was doing it in a panicky mode with my friends inside the house. Since it was a small party, I just had a couple of friends and they did not mind me clicking a few pictures.

I did not add the amount of red food coloring mentioned in the recipe and I used only half. We still got a pretty good color. Also, I was oscillating between buttercream frosting and cream cheese frosting and finally decided to go with the cream cheese frosting and have absolutely no regrets. The frosting was slightly tangy and the sweetness was perfect. Recipe from PinchMySalt.

hi vardhini.. i made this cake yesterday..and it was yumm though i made some silly mistakes in the frosting part..i m new in baking..also the lower part of the cake was brownish and the upper half was red in color why so..otherwise the cake was soft moist and delicious..also i want to know what is the use of vineger in this cake..

Baking soda and vinegar react to release carbon dioxide – this causes the batter to rise and expand while baking. Did you use the mentioned amount of food coloring? Was it mixed all the way through. I have read about brown cakes when the amount of food coloring used was less.

OOH LA..LA..now that is something really really pretty!!..not that I have forgotten the strawberry cake which u baked last yr!!..really fallen in love with this beauty!!..and loads of love and wishes to u r little one ..God Bless her….I am wondering what r u going to bake next year?…ehehe…..looking fwd!!

Wishing ur little girl a very happy B’day…I too made had made red velvet cake recently & I must say the bright color itself is such a joy to see…and urs looks fab with the pretty decor on top..I’m sure she must have been real glad!